Job Description:

• 1) Operates pile driver mounted on skids, barge, crawler treads, or locomotive crane to drive piling as foundations for structures, such as buildings, bridges, and piers: Moves hand and foot levers to control diesel-, electric-, gasoline-, or steam-powered hoisting equipment to position piling leads, hoist piling into leads, and position hammer over top of pile.

• 2) Moves levers and turns valves to activate power-driven hammer, or raise and lower drophammer which drives piles to required depth.

• 3) May be designated according to type of power used to activate pile driver as Compressed-Air-Pile-Driver Operator; Diesel-Pile-Driver Operator; or type of piles driven as Concrete-Pile-Driver Operator; Sheet-Pile-Driver Operator; Wood-Pile-Driver Operator; or type of mounting used as Pile-Driver Operator, Barge Mounted.

• 4) May be designated: Drop-Hammer-Pile-Driver Operator; Electric-Pile-Driver Operator; Steam-Pile-Driver Operator.